I watched Ant-Man. I'm slowly catching up on Marvel phase 47 or whatever.

Those films are like watching a Marvel TV show on Netflix. Only with bigger CGI stuff.

Watched Gemini Man in 120fps 3D in a Dolby Cinema. Don't usually go to cinema anymore, but I figured I might never get the chance to see something like this again, plus it's apparently the only Dolby Cinema in entire Germany and just opened recently, so I think I got pretty lucky there it was in my city.

Was an interesting experience. Uncanny Valley was managed rather well in my opinion and some of the action scenes with explosions and impacts worked really well too. Overall I would say the look was very "lifelike", very different from a normal moviegoing experience. Can't even say if it was better or worse, just different, I think both have their validity and it could just be used as a stylistic element.

However it seems the technology isn't fully up to it yet. At least the cinema I was in, there was very noticeable pixelation occurring near sharp edges, like a railing against the sun, or text overlays. A bit like a Nearest Neighbor Upscale, but not quite. Although this wasn't a big issue for most shots, the image sharpness overall was lacking too. For example in-focus grass turned into a blob of green mud with very little definition in it. Maybe they were struggling with bitrate as well, dunno.

Movie itself was okay. Didn't really expect much at all, but it was watchable and I even ended up liking it a little bit.

Fun experience, no regrets.

Indian Epic
Gangs of Wasseypur (2012) - 5h 21min -  2 parts
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1954470/
A clash between Sultan and Shahid Khan leads to the expulsion of Khan from Wasseypur, and ignites a deadly blood feud spanning three generations.


from the same director
Raman Raghav 2.0 (2016) - 'Psycho Raman'
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5662932/
Set in present day Mumbai the story follows the life of a serial killer Ramanna who is inspired by an infamous serial killer from the 1960s Raman Raghav.



Classic Crime Drama (unfortunately with songs - completely unnecessary)
Nayakan (1987) Hero
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093603/
Restored on Amazon (16:9)

nJoy

I saw Hearts of Darkness pretty recently. After all of these years, I'd argue that it's still one of the finest behind-the-scenes documentaries for any film production. Although I know everybody makes it out OK, I still feel legitimately nervous about what the cast and crew are putting themselves through for the picture.

Batman & Bill (2017)

Gripping and emotional, Totally unexpected!

I highly recommend to anybody.

Watched The Golden Child last night,like a bit of 80's

Terminator: Dark Fate.

My God, that was terrible. Nothing to salvage there, except maybe a decent Linda Hamilton. They ignored T3, Salvation and Genysis for that load of crap? T3 was better. Salvation was better. And Genysis at least had a fun 1st act revisiting the scenes from the original. What a waste of time! Let the franchise die already or give us a true war film set in 2029, that's all I've been wanting for years and was hoping after Salvation...

(2019-11-04, 12:09 AM)Beber Wrote: Terminator: Dark Fate.

My God, that was terrible. Nothing to salvage there, except maybe a decent Linda Hamilton. They ignored T3, Salvation and Genysis for that load of crap? T3 was better. Salvation was better. And Genysis at least had a fun 1st act revisiting the scenes from the original. What a waste of time! Let the franchise die already or give us a true war film set in 2029, that's all I've been wanting for years and was hoping after Salvation...

It's quite the trash fire. I'm gonna say though, at least the action sequences were reasonably well done. Everything else no thanks.

(2019-11-04, 12:17 AM)TomArrow Wrote:

(2019-11-04, 12:09 AM)Beber Wrote: Terminator: Dark Fate.

My God, that was terrible. Nothing to salvage there, except maybe a decent Linda Hamilton. They ignored T3, Salvation and Genysis for that load of crap? T3 was better. Salvation was better. And Genysis at least had a fun 1st act revisiting the scenes from the original. What a waste of time! Let the franchise die already or give us a true war film set in 2029, that's all I've been wanting for years and was hoping after Salvation...

It's quite the trash fire. I'm gonna say though, at least the action sequences were reasonably well done. Everything else no thanks.

I did not even care for the action: it was all CGI and boring. I want a future war movie made old school, with animatronics and models, directed by Stallone or George Miller. These guys like doing stuff old school like Expendables and Fury Road. They actually believe in real stunt work, not blue screens all over the place.

I don't know man, I saw some behind the scenes footage and they actually had that blonde tall gal drive herself in that scene where her character drives the car backwards on the highway. Was pretty surprised, I think they often just put the cars on trailers so the actor doesn't have to actually drive. Also had Sarah Conner fire some actual smoke out of a bazooka prop (no real rocket obviously) and used some real on set explosions and that scene with the truck driving through the house and throwing up cars was also real. See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKSZodiJqag

Still hated the movie, but that was not one of my major criticisms.

Am with you though in general, CGI often looks pretty cheap. Then again, maybe it did look cheap and I just didn't notice for ... ehm ... certain reasons related to the video quality of the movie.